MetaCTF@UVA: Our 5th Annual Event!

This year, we're holding our annual CTF event at the University of
Virginia on Saturday, November 2nd. It will be a competition that
challenges and encourages participants to learn new techniques and
concepts related to cybersecurity, from technical skills such as
reconnaissance, cryptography, binary and web exploitation, reverse
engineering, and forensics to legal and business skills such as risk
management and incident response.

This CTF is meant to be an opportunity to learn more about cybersecurity
and practice hacking in a safe and legal environment, so no experience
is expected or required!

Registration:
This CTF will be open to high school, undergraduate, and graduate
students from any school (with a maximum of 1 grad student per team).
Participants will compete in teams of four--if you don't have a team,
we will match participants into teams at the competition.
Registration is free and includes breakfast, lunch, and a t-shirt!

Location:
This event will be held at the UVA Darden School.
There will be free parking, and UVA transit has a Northline bus stop right outside.

Schedule:
We're still figuring out the schedule--check back soon for more information!

Sponsors:
We are currently looking for sponsors for this event! For more information,
email sponsor@metactf.com.

Frequently Asked Questions:

What is a CTF?

A CTF (capture-the-flag) event is a cybersecurity competition that involves
a variety of different computer skills. MetaCTF will test your security
skills and googling abilities with problems from reconnaissance to web
exploitation to cryptography.

What is a flag?

Answers to problems are called "flags." The goal of each CTF problem
is to find the flag, and flags are obtained by
cracking the cipher, pwning the application, or otherwise solving the
challenge. Finding the flag is akin to getting a
balloon in a programming competition.

What about prizes?

Don't have a team? We can help.

Even if you don't have a team, you can definitely still come to the
competition. We will pair you up with other participants at the event
to form a super awesome team.

Help! I don't know any cybersecurity stuff.

No experience is required! In fact, you'll probably even learn
more than your peers. We will provide plenty of hints and assistance
throughout the competition. Also, all the problems are designed to
teach you how to do them.

How can I practice?

Take a look at our page of practice problems, or
visit picoctf.com for more problems!